This is the first of the family tree charts on my paternal side of the family. This one is of Cozens Read’s grandparents John Read and Katharine Lovjoy and covers the next three generations. This takes you to Cozens Read’s children and the following Blog Charts will show the descent from those children!

Descendants of John READ (c1649 – 1694)

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN1 READ was born 1649 in Caversham, Berkshire, and died 1694 in Caversham, Berkshire. He married KATHARINE LOVJOY 13 Dec 1669 in St. Peter, Caversham, Berkshire, daughter of ROBERT LOVJOY and JONE WILDE. She was born 1649 in Caversham, Berkshire, and died 1713 in Caversham, Berkshire.

More About JOHN READ:
Admon: May 1715
Burial: 22 Apr 1694, Caversham, Berkshire

Notes for MARIE READ:
Marie was left only one shilling in her Mother’s Will (dated 1713). In this Will her Mother states that Marie is the wife of William White. Although searching in many places for about three years or so, I have yet to find this marriage! (June 2008).

3. EDWARD2 READ (JOHN1) was born 1672 in Caversham, Berkshire7, and died 1748 in Caversham, Berkshire7. He married MARY FAIRBROTHER 11 Oct 1715 in Bix, Oxfordshire. She died 1763 in Caversham, Berkshire.

Notes for EDWARD READ:
Edward was made the Sole Executor of his Mother’s Will and she left him all her goods and chattels.

5. WILLIAM2 READ (JOHN1) was born 1679 in Caversham, Berkshire, and died Dec 1752 in Wheatfield, Oxfordshire. He married ELIZABETH COSENS 08 Aug 1703 in Bix, Oxfordshire10. She was born 1679, and died Jun 1767 in Latchford, Oxfordshire.

Notes for WILLIAM READ:
William was left only one shilling in his Mother’s Will (dated 1713).

More About WILLIAM READ:
Baptism: 13 Oct 1679, Caversham, Berkshire11

Children of WILLIAM READ and ELIZABETH COSENS are:
i. ELIZABETH3 READ, b. 1703.

Notes for MARY READ:
The only way I know that Mary is Cozens Read’s sister is because when I visited Eythrope Park Farm, Buckinghamshire in 2000, she is shown as his sister (his only sibling shown) in the huge Rose Family Tree book that I saw. There are no other details shown for her and I have not yet discovered anything in the registers that show she is his sister, therefore nothing else known about her. (as of 2004).

When I discovered the baptism of Cozens Read and therefore his parents, I also discovered that Mary was born 1704 (baptised then at Caversham, Oxfordshire) and another sister before her.

Notes for RACHEL READ:
I know from Rachel’s Will that she was unmarried and living in Tiddington, Oxfordshire. I know from details in the Will that she is Cozens Read’s sister and from that found some of their other siblings. When she made her Will, about 1802 or thereabouts, she mentions a nephew Edward living with her but at this stage I am not sure if this would be Cozens Read’s son Edward or Cozens Read’s brother John’s son Edward who later lives at Great Milton, Oxfordshire.

Rachel also mentions in her Will that her cousin Anne Cozens is living with her too. It appears from Anne Cozens’ Will that Edward the nephew of Rachel Read is still living with Anne Cozens after Rachel dies. I have also learned from Anne Cozens’ Will that the house (farm?) was called Brimstone House in Tiddington, Oxfordshire and have since learned that this is now a government experimental station!

As of 2008, I have not been able to find any record showing Brimstone House(Farm) or any map showing where it was in Tiddington. I have tried various spellings for Brimstone, and in some registers have seen mention of Brimpton and even looked for a House(Farm) with that name.

7. COZENS3 READ (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1706 in Caversham, Berkshire, and died 1783 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He married ELIZABETH SHIRLEY 07 Nov 1734 in St. Mary’s Church, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, daughter of MICHAEL SHERLY and JANE ELLINGHAM. She was born 1713, and died 1786 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.

Notes for COZENS READ:
At the time of his baptism in 1706, Cozens is shown as Coessens the dau of William and Elizabeth!! I have a photocopy of the page from the Caversham Parish Registers and at that time, there are mainly daughters being baptised. I think that the clerk just got used to writing dau and did it automatically with this entry. He also made an error just below the Coessens Read baptism entry, in which he states Sary the the of …. and so here he didn’t even say if she was a son or a dau!!

To be certain that there was not a daughter Coessens and then a son Cozens, I looked for a burial in many parish registers after 1706 for a daughter Coessens and did not find one. I had also checked over 300 parish registers in the search for the baptism and parents of Cozens Read and the only times I came across the name of Cozens Read was for his marriage and burial and a few other places which were quite obviously correct entries for Cozens Read (a gentleman) rather than Coessens Read (a lady).

So, at this stage (after searching for nearly ten years for his baptism and searching this Read family for about twenty years now) I am 99% satisfied that the Caversham Parish Register baptism entry for 1706 truly applies to my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read. (June 2008).

According to the Notes in the Rose Family Tree book dated 1905 and held at Eythrope Park Farm, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire and seen by me in April 2000 when we visited Mrs. Margaret Rose there, Cozens Read is stated as being “of the Marsh Farm, Lower Winchendon …”.

We visited this farm in April 2000 and were kindly shown around it by the then present owner Nrs. Grace Arnott and her family. The farm is actually dated from before 1650 and apparently the inhabitants had problems there during the Civil War, because the kitchen (which was originally the Dairy) still has bars against the windows which were to keep those inside safe from those outside during the Civil War!!

In a number of Wills, Cozens Read’s son Michael is described as being of The Marsh, Lower Winchendon or of Winchendon Marsh and we spent a lot of time searching for a little hamlet of Lower Winchendon called The Marsh or Winchendon Marsh, until we made the discovery in the Rose Family Tree book!!

Mrs. Arnott informed us that Marsh Farm is and never was called that. It is always and always was referred to as The Marsh and she told us also that this is pronounced as Mash because of the Buckinghamshire accent.

8. JOHN3 READ (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1708 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, and died 1750 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. He married ELIZABETH HILLIARD 02 Nov 1740 in St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, Oxfordshire. She was born in Culham, Oxfordshire, and died 1750 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire.

Notes for EDWARD READ:
I have a Will for Edward, which mentions his nephew John Lovegrove and his niece Betty Atkins. As these are the children of Betty Read, daughter of John Read and Elizabeth, it would seem that her children would be the nephew and niece of Betty’s brother. I know that she has a brother William, but so far have not found a baptism for Edward, a son of John Read and Elizabeth. So although I am assuming that this Edward is the brother of Betty Read, this has not yet been proved as at November 2008. I am placing him here so I know where to add details about him as I come across them, and hopefully at some stage I will be able to prove he is the brother to Betty Read.

More About EDWARD READ:
Burial: 13 Feb 1829, Great Milton, Oxfordshire – age given as 82 years

More About MARY TANNER:
Burial: 25 Apr 1828, Great Milton, Oxfordshire – age given as 73 years

9. WILLIAM3 READ (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1709, and died 1758 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. He married MARY TURNER 03 May 1737 in Thame, Oxfordshire. She died 1790 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire.

Notes for WILLIAM READ:
In the parish register for Great Haseley, William is described as being of Latchford.

Notes for MARY TURNER:
Mary is described as being of “Whitfield” which I take to be Wheatfield.

10. WILLIAM4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1736 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1803 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He married MARY POLLARD 07 Feb 1782 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She was born 1742 in Oakley, Buckinghamshire, and died 1821 in Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.

Notes for WILLIAM READ:
I am not entirely sure that Mary Pollard is the wife of William or is maybe his second wife!! For this marriage he would have been about 46 years old. His son William born in 1761 means that he was born 21 years before William senr. married Mary Pollard.

From details given to me by others, it would seem that it is the William Read (William senr.’s son) born in 1761 who married Mary Pollard in 1782 and that William junr. and his wife Mary had the two children, Mary born 1783 and William born 1784. I really need to check this and if this is correct, then who did William senr. marry?

11. MARY4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1739 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire16, and died 1785 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire17. She married WILLIAM ROSE 01 Oct 1766 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire18, son of JOHN ROSE and MARY ADAMS. He was born 1746, and died 1801 in Lane End, Buckinghamshire19.

Notes for WILLIAM ROSE:
William, of Waddesdon, was a Dairyman at Lane End, Waddesdon and a Farmer at “Winchindon” (Winchendon) in what is now called Eythrope Park Farm.

Notes for WILLIAM ROSE:
According to the Rose Family Tree Notes held at Eythrope Park Farm and seen by me in April 2000, Eythrope Park Farm belonged to the Rose family for several generations and comprised of 200 acres according to the 1851 Census. The notes state: “According to the Will of William Rose who died there in 1825, he inherited it from his father, William Rose”.

William junr. (married to Elizabeth Read) left it to his eldest son William (father of Sarah who married Francis Cox), but after William (father of previously mentioned Sarah) married, he lived at Cranwell, where his father-in-law Henry Cox lived.

The property must have been sold for some reason as it is now part of the Rothschild estate.

William Cox of Denham Lodge became tenant there … but after his first wife died in 1865 he returned to Denham Lodge and his son, John Hughes Cox took over the tenancy. It then when back into the hands of the Rose family. John Rose, son of Michael Rose of Long Crendon and 2nd cousin of the above William Rose (father of Sarah) was the next tenant. Later, his son Herbert Rose took over the tenancy and farmed 1000 acres. After he retired, his nephew Anthony Rose became the tenant”.

William and his wife Elizabeth Read had nine other children besides William born 1803. One of my correspondents gave me this information and I will have to check who the other children are!! But it seems that only William out of the ten children, had children himself.

More About WILLIAM ROSE:
Burial: Mar 1825, St. Mary Magdalene, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire

Notes for ELIZABETH READ:
In the Rose Family Tree paperwork held at Eythrope Park Farm and seen by me in April 2000, the person collecting that information states that it was Miss Read (Mary) of The Marsh, Lower Winchendon who married William Rose and then mentions that William and his wife went on to have ten children born at Lane End, with only one (William) having issue. I have found and also been given the above info, but that William married Elizabeth Read (not Mary Read). Now, does that mean that Elizabeth was from The Marsh and the original collector of Rose info wrote down the wrong name, as William’s mother was Mary Read, or is Elizabeth Read from another branch of the Read family?

Notes for THOMAS ROSE:
According to the Rose Family Tree paperwork held at Eythrope Park Farm and seen by me in April 2000, “Thomas Rose, unmarried, lodged for many years at the Angel Inn in Kingsbury, Aylesbury, then one of the foremost hotels in the town but it has now been moribund from some years (1905)”.

Notes for CATHERINE ROSE:
After Catherine married John Cox, they lived at Denham Lodge, Quainton, Buckinghamshire and were the first of five generations to live there. (As at the 1960s) their descendants still live there. Catherine also appears to have the nickname “Kitty”. (From the Rose Family Tree paperwork, held at Eythrope Park Farm and seen by me in April 2000).

Notes for JOHN COX:
According to the paperwork with the Rose Family Tree held at Eythrope Park Farm and seen by me in April 2000, it states: “In 1818, John Cox, built the Baptist Chapel at Quainton. Inside the Chapel there are tablets on the walls to this family who are buried in the vaults beneath”.

12. ROBERT4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1740 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire23, and died 1799 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. He married MARY LEE 01 Oct 1767 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, daughter of JAMES LEE and PATIENCE. She was born 1740 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and died 1828 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Notes for ROBERT READ:
Robert is the son of Cozens Read who I am descended from.

He was a Tallow Chandler of Lower Winchendon, also a Grocer. He became a Victualler and bought a house, known as the Cross Tavern, near the market square in Aylesbury in 1772. This Tavern was still extant in 1900 as there is a photo showing it, which I have a copy of.

Notes for ESTHER WATKINS:
In the 1851 Census, widowed Esther is shown living with her unmarried daughter Martha in New Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and was working as a Dressmaker. Also living with her is her granddaughter Harriett Steeres, aged 14 (born in High Wycombe).

13. RACHAEL4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1741 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 05 Nov 1818 in Walworth, Surrey. She married FRANCIS FARMBROUGH 21 Apr 1766 in St. Mary Magdalene, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He was born 28 Nov 1736 in Stone, Buckinghamshire, and died 26 Jan 1810 in Stone, Buckinghamshire.

Notes for FRANCIS FARMBROUGH:
In addition to the freehold estate in the parish of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire which he inherited under his father’s Will, Francis re-purchased another estate in Aylesbury (26 November 1782) which had formerly belonged to his ancestors and there he took up residence until his death.

Notes for WILLIAM FARMBROUGH:
At some stage William occupied a farm at Whaddon Hill, Nr. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire for some time. By 1905 the farm was in the occupation of Rowland Sare and the farm was much larger before 1905 (Notes from Rose Family Tree made in 1905 and held by Mrs. Margaret Rose of Eythrope Park Farm, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, shown to me when I visited her in April 2000).

William and his wife moved from Pytchley in Northamptonshire to Caddington Bury in Bedfordshire in September 1810. This move was most disastrous from a financial point of view. Owing to the long-continued French war, corn was at famine prices, and William took on lease a large tract of wheat-growing land at a very high rental at and near Caddington. When peace was declared in 1815, wheat fell at once to a very low price, but the leases had to be worked out, and William estimated his loss of capital from this cause at between £8,000 and £10,000. When they moved to Caddington they had five children, of whom Elizabeth was then only four months old. Seventy years afterwards those five children were all alive and well, and three of them lived to pass the limit of fourscore years.

William inherited his father’s Aylesbury property and took up residence there until his death. At the time of the 1851 Census, William and his wife Anna were living in Castle Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and he is shown as working as a Malster.

Notes for ANNA WATTS CHECKLEY:
According to the notes in the Rose Family Tree held at Eythrope Park Farm, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, made in 1905 it states: “It was recorded by her (Anna Watts Farmbrough nee Checkley’s daughter Caroline) that she paid one guinea a year for thirty years as a tax for wearing powder in her hair”.

14. JANE4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1743 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She married RICHARD MAY 11 Feb 1766 in St. Mary Magdalene, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He was born 1740 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, and died Bef. 1800 in Westcott, Buckinghamshire.

15. KATHARINE4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1745 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1819 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. She married JEREMIAH POLLARD 19 Oct 1775 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He was born 1741 in Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, and died 1818 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.

16. SARAH4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1746 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1804. She married JOSEPH ROSE 30 Jul 1775 in St. Mary Magdalene, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, son of JOHN ROSE and MARY ADAMS. He was born Abt. 1750 in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, and died Jun 1796 in Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.

17. EDWARD4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1747 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1808 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He married MARY ROSE 12 Nov 1772 in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, daughter of JOHN ROSE and MARY ADAMS. She was born Abt. 1748 in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, and died 1801 in Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.

18. ELIZABETH4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1749 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1829 in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire. She married WILLIAM WOOD 24 Aug 1775 in Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, son of RICHARD WOOD and ELIZABETH FREEMAN. He was born 1751 in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire, and died 1815 in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire.

19. THOMAS4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1750 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died 1825. He married (1) JANE NORTON. She died Bef. 1823. He married (2) ANN POLLARD 1779. She was born 1753 in Oakley, Buckinghamshire.

20. STEPHEN4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1755 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and died Jan 1842 in Thame, Oxfordshire. He married (1) ANN (NANNY) ROSE, daughter of JOHN ROSE and MARY ADAMS. He married (2) ANN (NANNY) ROSE 15 Sep 1783 in Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She was born Abt. 1766, and died Jan 1844 in Thame, Oxfordshire.

Notes for STEPHEN READ:
In his Notes, Queries and Comments sent to me in May 2002, Vic Major says that Stephen was farming in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire by 1798.

More About STEPHEN READ:
Burial: 13 Jan 1842, Thame, Oxfordshire 86 years of Cuddington (non-parishioner) died at Thame

21. BETTY4 READ (JOHN3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1746 in Wheatfield, Oxfordshire, and died 1820 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. She married (1) THOMAS LOVEGROVE 07 Oct 1769 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, son of THOMAS LOVEGROVE. He was born 1732 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, and died 1792 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. She married (2) WILLIAM BURGESS 14 May 1796 in St. Martin, Oxford, Oxfordshire, son of WILLIAM BURGESS and ANN. He was born Abt. 1758 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, and died 1818 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire.

23. JOHN4 READ (WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1745 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, and died 1804 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. He married ANNE GRACE 15 Nov 1768 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. She died 1799 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire.

24. THOMAS4 READ (WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1752 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, and died 1838 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. He married ELIZABETH SHEPHERD 17 Apr 1780 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. She was born Abt. 1746, and died Abt. 1818 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire.

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